Anyone ever listen to their entire collection in alphabetical order?

[DroppinScience]

I'm currently doing this right now. Partly to listen to some stuff I haven't listened to in awhile (some albums are neglected... AND unjustifiably neglected) and also to weed out any albums that just no longer belong in my collection (so long, Bryan Adams!).

So far I'm only on the A's (and have already detected some stuff that's gotta go) and man, it'll be a long haul, but should be a fun one.

Has anyone else done this and lived to tell the tale? When you reach Z (for "Frank Zappa", perhaps?), how do you feel? "Whoa, that's a pretty decent collection of tunes" or is it "Jeez, how did I ever get into Culture Club?"

I'm curious. Discuss.

Edit - Here's an article that talks about what I'm doing...

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/year2004/article-marathon.htm

[Tzar]

i can;
AC/DC
Apocalyptica
Beastie Boys
Ghostface
Hilltop Hoods
Metallica
Nas
Pantera
Public Enemy
RATM
Slayer
System of a Down
Wu-Tang Clan

[minorthreat]

my collection is AC/DC to ZZ Top. listening to them all in order will take forever cause i haven't ordered them

[b-grrrlie]

I wonder how many months/years it would take for me to listen to my entire collection? :rolleyes:
I have my collection in alphabetical order, but I've got both LP's cd's and tapes. And there's quite a few thousand of them all...

[mickill]

Has anyone else done this and lived to tell the tale?

No, I have a life.

[Lex Diamonds]

No, I have a life.

[Rancid_Beasties]

Itunes says it would take about 30 straight days to listen to my collection. I am not willing to test that figure...

[abcdefz]

I'm currently doing this right now. Partly to listen to some stuff I haven't listened to in awhile (some albums are neglected... AND unjustifiably neglected) and also to weed out any albums that just no longer belong in my collection (so long, Bryan Adams!).

So far I'm only on the A's (and have already detected some stuff that's gotta go) and man, it'll be a long haul, but should be a fun one.

Has anyone else done this and lived to tell the tale? When you reach Z (for "Frank Zappa", perhaps?), how do you feel? "Whoa, that's a pretty decent collection of tunes" or is it "Jeez, how did I ever get into Culture Club?"

I'm curious. Discuss.

Edit - Here's an article that talks about what I'm doing...

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/year2004/article-marathon.htm





...I've actually thought about this, because I know I've bought a bunch of music that I still haven't listened to.

That being said, no. No, I haven't. The whole point of a private music collection is that no one -- not even the alphabet -- tells me who to listen to and when.

[DroppinScience]

No, I have a life.

Come on. You of all people got a bazillion albums. Surely there's some stuff you're not listening to as much as you should be...

[mickill]

This isn't the way I'd go about doing it.

[Freebasser]

Pretentious much?

[DroppinScience]

Pretentious much?

It's the music forum. That's like calling someone "opinionated" in the political board. :rolleyes:

[Documad]

I don't have enough time to listen to the new music that I bought in the past couple of months. There's no way I'm going to listen to all my old crap. I have been getting rid of some crap CDs--especially ones other people gave me. And I did throw away a few hundred jewel cases and put a lot of my mediocre CDs in cases.

I have been doing a variation of your experiment on a long-term basis. Since I started moving my vinyl out of storage at my mom's house and into my own home, I've been keeping it in two separate groups. An album can't get onto its permanent shelf until I listen to it all the way through. However, I do listen to the albums already on the shelf whenever I want. I have a feeling that Bonnie Tyler is never going to make the shelf. I have also listened to the song Big Log a dozen times, but the Robert Plant album it's on can't make the shelf because I can't bring myself to listen to the rest of it.

[Documad]

I don't think it's pretentious, really. Some people are just odd. I'm quite odd when it comes to books and music. :o

Pretentious is when co-workers gape at you because you're courageous enough to admit that you haven't heard of some obscure band they love. I don't know what it is when those same co-workers haven't heard of Jonathan Richman. :(

[yeahwho]

I have some pretty irritating records, especially around the letter A, I would probably not make it pass listening to that ABC record I bought way back when.

I'll pass.

[Documad]

I think that for me, the most difficult part would be listening to all my Beatles, Beasties, Stones, Pink Floyd, Who, Neil Young, etc. back to back -- any artist where I have 10 or so albums would be sheer torture.

[DroppinScience]

I think that for me, the most difficult part would be listening to all my Beatles, Beasties, Stones, Pink Floyd, Who, Neil Young, etc. back to back -- any artist where I have 10 or so albums would be sheer torture.

Yeah, I have some of those same concerns. I mean, damn, I got 20+ Frank Sinatra albums (and a whole bunch of other artists with lengthy discographies). :eek:

But I'm tempering any potential monotony by simultaneously listening to other stuff. I'm currently checking out my brother's collection as well, also in alphabetical order, which I've been doing for the past few months (I'm on the R's there). In addition, I'm also making sure I take a listen to all of my recent purchases, just so those don't collect dust.

Believe me, I won't get bored. ;)